LockOn: Modern Air Combat

Fast Battle Planner

With the help of the Fast Battle Planner, the player can easily create missions of their own design.

In the center of the planner there are the scenario settings. Using these fields, the player can set up various parameters concerning the forthcoming mission, such as:

• initial altitude of player aircraft;
• distance between player and enemy forces;
• speed of player aircraft;
• mission start time;
• approximate amount of fuel reserve aboard;
• weapon payloads for player and enemy vehicles;
• quantitative restriction of weapons available;
• realistic or invulnerable damage for player aircraft;
• initial altitude of player's aircraft;
• starting position between player and enemy forces;
• enemy's speed;
• season (possible options: summer, winter);
• weather conditions;
• type of terrain over which mission takes place (possible options: farm-land or sea);
• choice between realistic or arcade of radar functions;
• choice to add AWACS aircraft to the mission;
• select the geographical location, via the world map, for the mission to take place;

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Campaign editor

This special editor allows the player to create campaigns consisting of a series of linked missions with a common plot-line. Damage of map structures is tracked from mission to mission.

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LAN and Internet game

This mode allows players to fight cooperatively against AI-controlled enemies, or fly head-to-head against each other via a LAN or over the Internet. At the start of a session, the player can choose their coalition, and after downloading the mission, choose an aircraft. With the help of on-line chat, the player can communicate with the other players in their coalition.

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Options Settings

This menu allows players to customize Lock On: Modern Air Combat to the requirements of their system and choose custom settings of game realism. In the upper right-hand corner of the screen is a dial with five selections: Input, Audio, Difficulty, Graphics, and Cockpit.

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Training

The training module begins with teaching the basics of flying an aircraft and then moves on to specific tasks and skills. To start training, the player chooses a lesson that has already been recorded and is supplied with text and/or voice-over comments. At any time the player can stop the lesson and take over control of the aircraft. This is a very powerful teaching aid.

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Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia allows the user to look through all the aircraft, helicopters, tanks and armored carriers, cars, SAM and antiaircraft systems, radars, and weapons included in Lock On. In a separate window, the player can study the characteristics of these systems.

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Where to buy "LockOn: Modern Air Combat"

Original Lock-on: Modern Air Combat can be purchased at the following e-stores.

The Fighter Collection

SimWare Simulations

Amazon.com

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